Real-time forecasting of online auctions via functional K-nearest neighbors

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 666-683

  Zhang, Shu ^a   Jank, Wolfgang ^b   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Dynamics; EBay; Functional data; Functional forecasting; Kullback Leibler distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956266256     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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